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When the United States began the policy of isolation with Cuba, America was racially segregated, there was no such thing as Medicare or personal computers, and the Soviet Union was our major adversary. After all these decades, the Castro regime is still in power. Now seems to be the perfect time to try something new, focusing on market integration, diplomacy, and travel as well. This is an idea whose time has come.

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